Window-sash.



PATENTED ocT. 20, 1903.

S. GRADY. WINDOW SASH. 'APPLIGATION FILED MAY -2s. 1903.

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UNlTED Patented October 20, 1903.

SEYMOUR GRADY, OF BUENAVISTA, VIRGINIA.

.WlNDOW-SASH.

SPEQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,020, dated October 20, 1903.

Application filed May 23. 1903. Serial No. 158,539. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR GRADY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buenavista, in the county of Rockbridge and State of Virginia, have invented" new and useful Improvements in Window-Sashes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in windows wherein a sliding sash-frame is provided with a sash hinged thereto or so connected thereto as to be capable of being swung out of or into the sash-frame and be held in open adjusted position for the purpose of ventilation or cleaning.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction of this character and also to, in connection with this improved construction, provide for the ready removal and insertion of the panes of glass and to afford water-tight and dust-proof joints.

The invention consists in a sliding sashframe constructed of the character hereinbefore referred to and in details thereof, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

.in whichsimilar figures of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a window-sash constructed in accordance with this invention and showing the inner sash partly open. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing one form of water-tight and dustproof hinge-joint of sash-frame and sash. Fig. 3 is a slight modification of the construction shown by Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detailview showing the manner of removing the windowpanes. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional View showing the joint between the vertical and transverse bars for retaining and separating the window-panes. Fig. 6 is a detail view showing means for securing the inner and outer sash-frames together.

In the construction of this invention, 1 is the sash-frame, and 2 the inner or movable sash, fitting in and carried by the frame 1 and adapted to swing out of the same. The sash-frame 1 is adapted to slide in a windowframe and is formed on three sideswith a suitable groove or rabbet, such as 3, into which fits a suitable corresponding rabbeted edge 4 of the sash 2, said edge 4 overlapping the rabbet 3 in the frame 1 to prevent rain from being blown into the slots through which the window-panes are inserted. The fourth orhinge side of the sash-frame l is formed with a grooved inner face 6, and thehinged edge or surface of the inner sash-frame 2 is provided with a projected edge 5 to form a .tongue-andgroove joint, serving as a hinge for the said swinging sash 2. The edge5 preferably consists of a semicylindrical projected surface having an ofiset or flange 8, which rests on the rib 9, formed on the outer edge of the said grooved inner face 6.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, 13 indicates the sash-frame, and 14 the sash. The edge of the sash-frame is formed with an oval portion 15 and the offset 16 and the meeting edge of the sash with the semicylindrical groove 17 and rabbet 18, which fits into the oval portion 15 and offset 16, respectively, of the sash-frame. Either joint hereinbefore described forms an interlocking water-tight and dust-proof joint and serves as a hinge for the swinging sash.

If desired, pintles 19 (see Fig. 6) may be employed to retain the sash in hinged position to the sash-frame.

The sash 2, which is adapted to swing inwardly into a room, is provided with suitable means for holding it in adjusted open positionas, for example, the folding arms 20, which, having stifliy-movable joints, will hold the sash at any open adjusted position and which when folded is located in a recess 21 in the sash-frame 1.

In order that the panes 22 of the sash may be readily removable for repair, &c., the vertical bar 23 of the sash is formed with slots or passage-ways 24 for the passage of the panes 22, and the transverse bars 25 have grooves 26, in which the panes can be slid. The middle grooved cross-bars 27 are removable, each end thereof having a V-shaped groove 28, which fits over the vertical bar, and a tongue 29, which fits into the slots 26 in the bar 25. By tiltingthe bars 27 they may be taken out of the sash. When the panes 22 are in place, the slots 24 may be closed or plugged up by any suitable.means.

In order that rain may be prevented from entering and passing through-the joints of the sash, the sash-bar 2 of the inner sash is formed with a rib or flange 32, which projects more than the opposite curved portion 32 and the middle cross-bars 27 are similarly formed with a rib or flange 33 and an opposite curved or beveled portion 33 These curved or beveled portions will divert the rain running down the glass and carry it off.

By means of the foregoing construction several advantages are afforded. The sash may be swung open to any adjusted position for ventilation or cleaning. The joints of the sash and frame and of the window panes and sash are rendered water-tight and dust-proof, and the glass may be readily removed and inserted without the use of putty. It will also be perceived that the sash is so constructed that one, two, six, or more panes maybe utilized, dependent upon the adjustment and removal of the middle bars.

\Vhile I have shown the inner sash-frame 2 opening from the side of the window, it will be understood that the said frame may be so hinged that it maybe readily opened in an upward or downward direction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

1. A sash-frame having three of its sides formed with a rabbet, and its fourth side formed with an inner semicircular groove, a flange at the outside of said groove, and an offset outside of the flange, in combination with a swinging sash having three of its sides formed with a rabbet, and its fourth side with a bead or oval portion, a groove, anda flange outside of the groove, the fourth side of the sash fitting in the fourth side of the sashframe, and forming therewith a hinged joint,

and means for holding the sash in adjusted open position, as hereinset forth.

2. Asash-frame, in combination with a sash fitted in said frame, and hinged to swing in and out of the same; said sash having aslotted end bar, grooved vertical bars, and removable horizontal grooved middle bars, whereby panes of glass may be slid into and out of the sash, the middle bars, and the lower cross-bar, having an outer flange higher than the inner flange, in which the glass sets, whereby rain is prevented from entering the joints, as herein set forth.

3. The combination with a sash-frame, of a sash hinged in said frame, and means for holding the sash in open adjusted position, the hinge of the sash and frame consisting of a joint, in which the e'dgeof the frame is formed with a semicircular groove, a flange and an offset, and the adjacent edge of the sash is formed with an oval portion or rib fitting in and adapted to rock in said groove in the frame; a groove fitting over the flange of the frame, and a flange overlapping the flange of the frame, and resting against the offset of the frame, as herein set forth.

4. A window-sash having a slotted end rail and vertical rails,grooved to receive the panes,

and the middle rails grooved to receive theends of the panes, and have grooved and tongued ends, whereby they are removable from the sash; the lower cross-rail and the middle cross-bars being formed with a projecting flange to form a water-tight joint, as herein set forth.

'5. A window-sash frame, in combination with a swinging sash having one edge forming with the adjacent edge of the frame, an

interlocking hinged joint,and means for bold ing the sash in open adjusted position, said sash having grooved rails, and removable jointed middle bars,for the insertion of glass; and the lower rail, and middle bars having a projecting flange and a curved beveled flange, as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SEYMOUR GRADY.

\Vitnesses:

O. H. BUCHANAN, \V. P. LEE. 

